BEN CHANDLER WINS IN KENTUCKY: Dodd Harris says it was a lock all along, but I think it’s entirely because of the blogads!

UPDATE: Reader David Russell emails:

I wouldn’t give all the credit for Chandler’s win to Blogads. I would give Chandler’s advantage to name recognition, he was in a shortened ten week race against a state senator . Chandler ran for Governor in November and lost, and was previously the state’s attorney general for eight years and state auditor for four years before that.

The credit for the win doesn’t go to blogads but to the simple fact that people are familiar with Ben Chandler’s name.

Er, I was kidding about the blogads. But they didn’t hurt! And note that Chandler has already updated the ad to reflect his win. (“The blogosphere has set the stage for the 2004 elections.”)

ANOTHER UPDATE: Hey, what a coincidence — Josh Marshall is crediting blogads, too! (“The campaign budgeted about two grand for blog advertising. And my understanding is that by today they had raised close to $100,000 from contributors who linked through from those blogs on which the campaign was advertising. . . . Now, obviously that’s exciting news for proprietors of blogs looking to open up revenue streams from advertisers.”) No conflict of interest here. . . .